Welcome to ACCE's new bookstore. Here you will find books relevant to your work at the chamber, organized by ACCE's twelve primary topic areas. Go to genre to browse books by topic area. In the "What We're Reading" section, you will find a monthly book recommendation by an ACCE member. As we build our library of recommendations, you can access the archive by going to "What We're Reading" under the genre tab. And you won't want to miss the books written by our convention speakers! Find them by going to "ACCE Convention speakers" under the genre tab. Please let us know if you have any difficulty finding or purchasing items through the bookstore. We are here to help. Email aimhoff@acce.org or call 703-998-3524 with any questions.

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With the most recent data collected in the spring of 2012, the 8^th Annual ACCE Chamber Operations Survey Report features new information on chamber structure, including merger and separation activity. Also new this year is more detail on unrestricted income, fundraising, dropped members as a result of business failures, and more. The report features 29 charts and graphs, and is built on data sets collected for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Current statistics (for program year 2011) have been calculated from 263 chambers broken out as follows: 59 with annual revenue of $450,000 and under; 56 with annual revenue between $450,00 and $900,000; 68 with annual revenue between $900,001 and $2,000,000; 49 with annual revenue between $2,000,001 and $5,000,000; and 31 with annual revenue above $5,000,000. Statistics are calculated for the following areas: organizational structure and function, governance, staffing, membership, and finances.  The publication is in PDF format so there is no charge for shipping.

by Edward J. McMillan, CPA, CAE

The accounting principles, tax issues, reporting requirements, and general work environment for not-for-profit organizations are remarkably different from those affecting commercial organizations. As a result, the task of keeping up with current financial and disclosure requirements, already daunting, can become even more so. Combining the proven guidance of the previous, best selling edition with all of the latest regulatory information, Edward McMillan delivers a one-stop reporting resource for not-for-profits in Not-For-Profit Accounting, Tax, and Reporting Requirements.

by Matthew Dowd

by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "opportunity for highly profitable growth." The only reason more big companies don't set sail for them, they suggest, is that "the dominant focus of strategy work over the past twenty-five years has been on competition-based red ocean strategies"-i.e., finding new ways to cut costs and grow revenue by taking away market share from the competition. With this groundbreaking book, Kim and Mauborgne-both professors at France's INSEAD, the second largest business school in the world-aim to repair that bias. Using dozens of examples-from Southwest Airlines and the Cirque du Soleil to Curves and Starbucks-they present the tools and frameworks they've developed specifically for the task of analyzing blue oceans. They urge companies to "value innovation" that focuses on "utility, price, and cost positions," to "create and capture new demand" and to "focus on the big picture, not the numbers." And while their heavyweight analytical tools may be of real use only to serious strategy planners, their overall vision will inspire entrepreneurs of all stripes, and most of their ideas are presented in a direct, jargon-free manner. Theirs is not the typical business management book's vague call to action; it is a precise, actionable plan for changing the way companies do business with one resounding piece of advice: swim for open waters.

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Career Building for the Chamber Professional: A Definitive Guide to Moving Up in the Chamber World provides insights into the job search process for chamber leaders, and, by doing so, limit your zigging and zagging to reach your goal. This book is designed to offer practical advice and wisdom, based in part on the author's own observations and experiences, as well as comments from others within the chamber profession. The advice and tips here are designed to help you overcome some of the obstacles you may face and help you secure your next chamber leadership position. Don't let your chamber position be just a job, make it a career. See inside this book: Table of Contents/Introduction | Chapter Excerpt "Fantastic! A 'must have' for any executive contemplating their next step," says Kristofer T. Johnson, IOM, President & CEO, Tri-City (WA) Area Chamber of Commerce.

by Henry G. Cisneros

This groundbreaking publication takes the first-ever look at the growing and increasingly prosperous U.S. Latino community and their housing needs. Casa Y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Designs helps prepare all segments of the housing industry to truly understand and work with Latinos.

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Certificates of Origin (COs) are international trade documents used to determine the origin of goods for official, commercial and financial reasons. Since 1898, chambers have been recognized by government and customs officials as competent authorities to issue COs. With nearly 4 million certificates issued within the United States annually, chambers play a crucial role as trusted third parties bringing reliability, integrity, neutrality and impartiality in the issuance of COs.

This four-part online eCourse series will help you determine if your chamber should be in the business of issuing certificates of origin. You will learn from credible experts how globally chambers have become the issuing authority of certificates of origin; receive legal advice on what chambers should know and do as the issuing authority; hear how one chamber retrieved their corporate seal from freight forwarders that were using them to create certificates for their customers; and finally learn a brief "how-to" process from a chamber professional that has been issuing certificates for over 30 years.